Karina

Some couples land at Schiphol the day before a sailing and never reach the city at all, which is a perfectly sensible way to run a fly-in day. Karina is twenty-five and takes those rooms by arrangement rather than on the terms of a central booking, because the travelling has to be settled first. Inside central Amsterdam her arrival is forty to sixty minutes from the moment an hour is confirmed, and she says that plainly instead of promising sooner. She lives in the Centrum, writes in Latvian, Russian or English, and keeps a thread short. Blonde, tall, and inclined to ask one clear question rather than write five vague ones.

Karina decides which bookings she takes and may decline any of them; she sets the limits for what a session includes, says what they are, and may end a visit at any point, as the terms set out.